2024
A smartphone app-based mindfulness intervention to enhance recovery from substance use disorders: Protocol for a pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial
Roos C, Bricker J, Kiluk B, Trull T, Bowen S, Witkiewitz K, Kober H. A smartphone app-based mindfulness intervention to enhance recovery from substance use disorders: Protocol for a pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications 2024, 41: 101338. PMID: 39233850, PMCID: PMC11372603, DOI: 10.1016/j.conctc.2024.101338.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTreatment-as-usualSubstance use disordersRecovery outcomesLong-term recovery outcomesFeasibility of study proceduresFeasibility randomized controlled trialMindfulness-based treatmentsUse disorderRandomized controlled trialsEcological momentary assessmentIn-personMindfulness interventionPilot trialStudy proceduresControlled trialsMomentary assessmentPublic healthEnhanced recoveryOutpatient treatmentMechanical variablesOutcomesTrialsAppsDelivery methodsIndividuals
2016
Neural stress reactivity relates to smoking outcomes and differentiates between mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral treatments
Kober H, Brewer JA, Height KL, Sinha R. Neural stress reactivity relates to smoking outcomes and differentiates between mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral treatments. NeuroImage 2016, 151: 4-13. PMID: 27693614, PMCID: PMC5373945, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.09.042.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCognitive-behavioral treatmentFunctional magnetic resonance imagingStress reactivityMindfulness-based treatmentsAmerican Lung Association's FreedomUnderstanding of stressPsychological mechanismsMindfulness trainingNegative affectConjunction analysisMid insulaCBT groupStress provocationSmoking outcomesBrain regionsCessation treatmentEfficacy of MTCurrent studyEntire sampleDrug useSmoking cessationImportant implicationsMagnetic resonance imagingMindfulnessInsula
2015
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Craving and the Regulation of Craving
Kober H, Mell M. Neural Mechanisms Underlying Craving and the Regulation of Craving. 2015, 195-218. DOI: 10.1002/9781118472415.ch9.ChaptersFunctional magnetic resonance imagingVentral striatumNeural activityRegulation of cravingVentrolateral prefrontal cortexCue-induced cravingMindfulness-based treatmentsAnterior cingulate cortexCentral causal roleWealth of researchCognitive strategiesRegulation strategiesPrefrontal cortexCingulate cortexBrain regionsCravingPositron emission tomography studyCausal roleEmission tomography studiesDrug useAddictionCortexMagnetic resonance imagingResonance imagingAmygdala